Yi Chenjing knew Bai Qige's stubbornness very well. Seeing that she was so weak and still insisted on walking alone, he knew that her stubborn temper was coming back again.
"Zhan Ting, go to the Imperial Physician's Mansion to take care of Yu Che."
The obvious intention to expel her turned into a simple order in Zhan Ting's ears, and he looked at Yi Chenjing with a blank expression. Zhan Ting, who was too honest and dull, was confused: "Didn't you say that he will be sent back to Lianchenxuan when the injury is healed?
Besides, there are still imperial doctors to take care of me, so what’s the point of me going?”
"Go if you are told to go. Where's all this nonsense?" Yi Chenjing glared with a straight face, "The road is narrow and three people can't walk away. Why can't you just disappear for a while?"
Zhan Ting also understood that he couldn't read people's faces, scratched his head and said "Oh". Although he didn't know what Yi Chenjing planned to do, he obeyed the order and rushed to the imperial doctor's house. When he turned around, he still said to himself blankly.
Said: "Isn't the road quite wide? Why can't I walk on it?"
I don’t know whether it’s a blessing or a misfortune to have such a kind and clumsy confidant.
Bai Qige, who was walking in front, did not hear the conversation between the two behind her. She had too many doubts and feelings about this conspiracy that spanned two countries and involved many people, such as the unremembered relationship with Yi Chenxuan, and the
, Yi Chenjing knew the inside stories that she had never heard before.
The back of his cold hand suddenly felt warm, and his firm and strong arms held the staggering Bai Qige steady. Yi Chenjing didn't look away, as if he was lifting the slightly surprised woman, and just moved casually: "Don't show off if you can't walk. If you are stubborn again,
You can’t be too stubborn to defeat the medicinal properties of Huan Shen Xiang.”
"You even know what incense is, how many secrets in the Yaohe Palace do you not know?" Bai Qige asked back, stubbornly pushing Yi Chenjing away again.
Jian's eyebrows were furrowed, feeling very unhappy about being rejected twice in a row: "You refused to listen when I told you to stay away from Yi Chenxuan. I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you would go find him if your brain got hot. Now you know how much you weigh.
? If he is an opponent that can be eliminated easily, why should I delay it until now? If Zhan Ting and I had arrived just a moment late, have you ever thought about how terrible things would have happened?!"
"The most terrifying thing has happened a long time ago, what else is there to be afraid of?" Bai Qige's eyes were dark, and the smile on her lips was cold, "It doesn't make any difference once or twice, right?"
The steady steps suddenly stopped, Yi Chenjing took a deep breath, tilted her head seriously but did not want to believe what she heard.
"In your eyes, are I the same as them?"
Bai Qige did not answer, and lowered her head slightly. The delicate porcelain white skin on her neck highlighted the blood redness of the wound. The lonely figure continued to move forward slowly, looking doubly desolate in the night and cold wind.
What's the difference? She was forced to become a plaything by force. If there were any differences, it was probably just a difference between one person or a group of people. After all, she was not a conservative daughter who grew up under feudal education. Bai Qige's relationship with
She didn't care about chastity as much as other women around her. What she left with that night was not the fear of losing her virginity, but the shame of being powerless and unable to resist when faced with the abuser, and of course, the painful memories of being ruthlessly torn apart.
"You are all the same, despicable and shameless." Bai Qige clasped her hands tightly and bit her lip gently.
"Qi Ge——" He couldn't tell whether it was anger or remorse. Yi Chenjing was impulsively driven to reach out and grab the weak woman. His complex expression changed several times, and finally stayed in sadness, "Forget what happened that night, okay?"
Bai Qige sneered silently.
If he can forget, how can she forget? How can the child in her belly forget and be forgotten? Nothing can be forgotten and treated as if it never happened. A life has quietly come to the world, but he wants her to forget that.
Ye, do you want to deny his own mistakes or deny the possible consequences of a night of rape? In the end, he only regards her as a tool.
She had had enough of the feeling of being discouraged. She originally wanted to stay away from Yi Chenjing and walk away alone. However, before she could get cold feet, Yi Chenjing's reaction left Bai Qige stunned for a moment.
"I am willing to take all responsibilities, if you need me." The night was fading, the moonlight was hazy, his angular face was quiet and peaceful, and his deep eyes showed no trace of falsehood. The Seventh Prince of Dayao, who had never been seen by anyone else, took off all the false appearances.
Every word, every look, tried his best to express what sincerity is. Sighing and holding his almost frozen hands in his palms, Yi Chenjing lowered his head and breathed in the hot air, his eyebrows as gentle as water: "I didn't believe you really lost it before.
Memory, that's why you did those things. As compensation, you can always live in the palace as a prince and concubine. Is that good?"
"Living in the distance all my life, living under your control? Rather than listen to some sweet words, I would rather you just say that you want to recruit me as your subordinate. At least it will be more real and credible."
"what is the difference?"
Giving up further explanations and leaning against the tree, Bai Qige felt physically and mentally exhausted like never before.
Yi Chenjing is a typical male chauvinist. He always thinks that it is natural for women to depend on men for survival, so he feels that there is no difference between Bai Qige, a prince's concubine, and Bai Qige, a subordinate. However, Bai Qige is completely opposite to his idea. A subordinate is a subordinate, and the prince
The concubine is his wife. She wears the title of princess but acts as a subordinate and plans all her life. Who is she?
If possible, she would rather put aside her humiliating status as a prison concubine and stay with Yi Chenjing, watch him conquer the territory, and watch him conquer the world.
"Okay, let's talk about these things when we have time." Seeing Bai Qige's face getting worse and worse, Yi Chenjing felt a faint pain in her heart. She turned her back and pointed at her shoulder, "Come up, I will carry you back."
"It's windy and rainy, cloudy and sunny, moody. How many kinds of personalities do you have?" Just after a few words of argument, Bai Qige put on a gentle face. Bai Qige really wanted to kick him, but unfortunately the last strength was used in the quarrel, so he could only
To dispel the confusion, he gritted his teeth and said a few words of sarcasm.
Yi Chenjing was not angry either. She had the rare patience to stand in front of Bai Qige: "Come up quickly. It's getting late. If you go back until dawn, you won't be discovered. I don't know how to answer my mother's questions."
Bai Qige hesitated for a moment, turned around and saw no one around, her heart skipped a beat, she pushed her hands back on the tree trunk, and used the reaction force to press heavily on Yi Chenjing's back. Her limbs were as weak as a soft-footed cat, so she moved back step by step.
Lianchenxuan would have been frozen to death even if he wasn't exhausted. What's more, he finally had the opportunity to make Yi Chenjing suffer. How could he miss it?
"...You also said that I have a changeable personality. Aren't you as childish as a child?" Yi Chenjing shook his head and smiled bitterly. He straightened up slightly. Bai Qige could clearly feel the weight of Bai Qige's deliberate pressure. The two arms wrapped around her shoulders.
There is no taboo around the neck, and the breath on the ear is warm, and it is a little itchy on the skin. Yi Chenjing tilts her head subconsciously: "Your straight and stubborn temperament is completely different from before. I remember you when I was a child.
You sprained your foot and I asked you to carry you home, but you held it in until your face turned red and didn't say whether it was okay or not, so Hong Xiao and I stayed with you by the river until dark."
This was the first time that Yi Chenjing mentioned the past. Bai Qige was still secretly angry about the dispute just now, but she gradually calmed down after listening to him telling his childhood stories calmly, and her tone became much softer.
"When did you start hating me? Did you start falling in love with Princess Hongxiao, or did you already hate me when you first met me?"
"Who knows." Yi Chenjing said calmly, "When I was a child, I always felt that you were like Hong Hao's shadow. You would follow her wherever she went. Occasionally, you would act quietly and act a little bit, but at that time
I don’t think it’s annoying or anything, after all, you are younger than me and Hong Xiao, so it’s okay to let you go.”
"That means I'm not sensible, right?"
"Yes." Yi Chenjing said bluntly.
Anyway, the past had nothing to do with her, so Bai Qige didn't feel unhappy at all. She clung to the warm back and listened to the cold wind whistling by, feeling sleepy after a night of tossing.
"Tell me more about the past, maybe I will remember it after listening to it."
A sigh fell in the wind, and Bai Qige couldn't tell whether it was Yi Chenjing's or her own. There was no unexpected resistance or uneasiness in such a close contact with him. In the lonely night, on the plain snow road, he was not the Qi who usually harbored deep hatred for the city.
The prince Yi Chenjing is not Bai Qige, the surrogate concubine who is burdened with heavy responsibilities and scheming every step of the way. Even the disputes that could have affected the world situation just now have quietly stayed away. Ning He feels like...
Like a pair of intimate lovers.
Shocked by her outrageous thoughts, Bai Qige shook her head and tried to dispel her sleepiness. Unexpectedly, it made Yi Chenjing very worried: "What? Does the wound hurt? Bear with it for now, and I will give you medicine when I get back."
"It's nothing, I just suddenly thought of something." Bai Qige closed her eyes and pressed her cheek against the cold blue hair. She didn't even know that her thin lips actually outlined a faint smile, "If there weren't all those disputes, you should be a good man.
——Although he is rude, he is wise, and he is not as twisted and crazy as Yi Chenxuan. He is kind and moderate, proud and sober. Maybe this is why I want to help you get the throne."
"Do you really want to help me?" Yi Chenjing's heart moved.
Bai Qige hummed, with a hint of sleepiness in her tone: "Indeed, I once hated you to the core, including what you said just now, which made me very disgusted, but I have to admit that you are the best candidate for the king of a country in my mind.
I can now give you a clear answer to your question that day. Even if the Bai family is no longer in your hands, I am still willing to stay by your side until you become the monarch of the distant country and rule the world."
It can be said that this is the first time that such a high evaluation has been received. Although it comes from a woman, and she is a woman with a special status that has been despised by thousands of people, but for some reason, it sounds more valuable to Yi Chenjing than all praises.
After walking in silence for a while, and when scattered light snow began to fall in the sky, Yi Chenjing finally spoke again.
"The past is gone, why bother to pursue it again? Just forget it, maybe it's best to bury the truth forever. I don't want you to have anything to do with Hong Xiao's death, otherwise, I really don't know what to do.
Okay...Qi Ge? Qi Ge?"
There was no answer. In the empty night, there was only the tranquility of even breathing in my ears.
"Have you slept..." There was a trace of bitterness on Qingjun's face. The words that had been in his heart for many days were said out, but she did not hear them. Looking at the windy and snowy road ahead, Yi Chenjing could not guess the next candid meeting.
When it comes, maybe that day will never come.
With a future that cannot be seen clearly, can she become his confidante?